Infinite Slaughter System: I Kill, Therefore I Ascend!-Chapter 151: A Second Partner
Someway, somehow, the sky—which had been as clear as possible since it was a sunny day—had become overcast, as if severe rain was about to fall.
However, if you told Gu Yin that these black-colored thunderclouds preceded normal rain, she would slap you into meat paste on the spot.
There could only be one thing that this sudden change in weather meant, and that was the feared Heavenly Tribulation!
This was not just due to their sudden appearance, but the crackling thunder that was accruing, as well as the aura it radiated unabashedly towards all living things, containing the inviolable majesty and unquestioned authority of the Will of Heaven!
What Gu Yin did not understand was why this was here. Heavenly Tribulations for cultivators only began when entering the Fourth Realm, in which they would undergo the one-nine tribulation, meaning one tier of nine individual lightning strikes.
If they survived, they would be baptized by the Cloud of Heaven’s Essence, allowing them to consolidate their cultivation and even granting them various bonuses depending on how intense their tribulation was and how great their foundation in cultivation.
Heavenly tribulations were not all that hated in Firmament Heaven compared to other cultivation realms, because here, while death was almost certain for the unprepared, it was more of an intense test than a sure-death endeavor, so enough preparation could see one survive and benefit.
But Gu Yin had yet to hear of a heavenly tribulation being cast down upon someone breaking through the third realm!
Then again, it was unknown if anyone in history had comprehended one rule when entering the third realm, much less three of them...
Gu Yin immediately became anxious because she didn’t know Li Ling’s state, and whether his breakthrough had cost an arm and a leg to manifest those talents! For all she knew, the fellow could be completely unconscious and helpless!
However, she couldn’t interfere. Once a heavenly tribulation started, all irrelevant personnel had to clear out, otherwise they would be dragged into its influence and increase the scale of the tribulation manyfold!
As such, she could only continue to suppress the area without daring to go in, hoping for the best.
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Meanwhile, in the cultivation chamber belonging to Li Ling...
"Shen Ziyan, you have a lot of guts coming in here like this. Just because I tolerate you, you think you wear the pants in this situation?" Li Ling asked gloomily, his eyes manifesting genuine killing intent for the first time towards her.
Shen Ziyan didn’t immediately respond, needing to catch her breath after rushing here. Unlike her usual immaculate state, now she was completely disheveled, looking like a crazy woman who had escaped from an asylum.
Indeed, her words also reinforced her current state, as she made a wild offer while breathing heavily. "Li Ling, marry me and I will agree to anything you want."
There was only a brief pause before the malevolent Li Ling disappeared and was replaced by a scholarly-looking fellow with an amused smile. "Sure, why not?"
Shen Ziyan was naturally stunned by his sudden change of demeanor and his agreement. She thought she had a general read on Li Ling’s personality and thoughts for various reasons, but it seemed that what she knew was just the tip of the iceberg.
"Okay, then I will..." Shen Ziyan began, but was interrupted by Li Ling, who wagged his index finger.
"No, no, no, my dear. You don’t do anything but what I tell you, and right now I’m telling you to bend over to receive your darling husband’s flagpole of honor and truth." Li Ling said in a teasing tone.
Even as Shen Ziyan was rendered speechless, Li Ling continued by pointing downward. "That’s right, I am exactly that kind of worldly and crass fellow. Did you expect someone who wouldn’t touch you or wasn’t interested in the matters of the flesh? Well, too bad!"
"Down you get, face pressed against the mat, hips hanging in the air. You won’t be able to get the legendary posture right the first time, but I will adjust it myself when I get behind you." Li Ling said, rudely pointing downward in front of himself.
Shen Ziyan recovered from her surprise and nodded calmly, moving to adopt the posture Li Ling described. Indeed, she hadn’t really thought of sexual matters most of her life due to her responsibilities and her special nature, but if she was to take a husband, then such actions of procreation were normal—not just for her, but for the clan too.
Not to mention that she favored Li Ling greatly, and now that she thought about it, he was actually the best candidate to do this with as he would be the least repulsive male she would find for a long time.
While she moved to make the posture, Li Ling folded his arms with a slightly cruel smile, opting to use the upgraded system scan to check Shen Ziyan.
｢Name: Shen Ziyan
Status: Intoxicated, Aroused.
Age: 20/1200
Slaughter Points Value: 15,800
Cultivation Base: Nascent Soul mid-stage (23%) || Golden Body level 8 (97%)
Cultivation Methods: Divine Deva Ascent || Light Absorbing Divine Body Mantra
Remarks: Shen Ziyan, Matriarch of the Shen Clan and now your second wife, does not have a strong luck factor like Bai Ruyi but more than makes up for it with her monstrous talent in the path of light-element cultivation. She has a special hidden physique called the Divine Light Immortal Body, a true Immortal Physique ranked at number 7 in the Immortal Realm that has only been awakened by her up to a single percent, making the elders of the Six Paths Demon Sect misjudge it as the Holy Light Spirit Body, ranked number 13 in the mortal cultivation realm. Because of this physique, Shen Ziyan is fixated on cleanliness, not just of body, but of qi. You are the only person she has encountered in her life so far who has 100% pure qi with not a single blemish, making you like the only island of roses among a sea of filth.｣
The new scan could even tell cultivation techniques, which was quite useful for Li Ling if he wanted to kill them since he could devise counter-methods around those techniques if he knew them.
Aside from that, Shen Ziyan’s updated information was interesting. Because the Infinite Slaughter System was no longer scraping the bottom of the barrel by relying on ’shared fate’ to brute-force finding information about Shen Ziyan, a lot more crucial information was dug out.
For example...
’A sniffer, huh? I only remember one person like that, that weird woman from that TV anime about aura farming.’ Li Ling amused himself, feeling that the cultivation world was truly amazing.
However, once he understood the situation with Shen Ziyan, he began to maliciously plot how to take advantage of it for himself. For one, children born from them—would they have both Space and Light element physiques as well as talents? 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Li Ling was interested to find out!
Just as Shen Ziyan adopted the necessary pose with an unnatural flush in her face—because no matter what, she was still young enough that she had a sense of shame and propriety, not yet ’cold-hearted’ in the truest sense—Li Ling’s face changed as he glanced upwards, no longer able to enjoy the sight of the round flesh in front of him, feeling a terrifying power lock onto him. He had felt this power before when the Will of Heaven was about to punish him for breaking the oath with Jian Chen, but this one was nearly a hundred times stronger in comparison.
Heavenly Tribulation! It could only be that!
Shen Ziyan also detected this and was unsure whether to leave or stay, because given the speed at which the tribulation formed, even at her fastest she would not be able to leave its range before it considered her part of it.
However, Li Ling immediately rushed to her side and picked her up, tossing her forward with a slight smile on his face. "Dear wife, wait for me outside while I talk to Brother Heaven’s Will."
Shen Ziyan only felt herself enter another dimension the next moment, where intense and brutal cutting energy lashed at her form, easily tearing her pristine white skin and revealing flesh—and sometimes bones—underneath, before she was rudely ejected back into reality with a rough landing at the main hall, where she had been before Li Ling started his breakthrough.
Some of the Clan Elders and talents were still here, shocked by the entire process and unable to move, not daring to move from their spot, so they were left speechless when their own matriarch came crashing in from a spatial portal.
"Matriarch!"
"Lady Ziyan!"
Many rushed to help Shen Ziyan up, as her current state was not very good. While she wasn’t like Majin Three, who lost limbs and was half-dead, she still looked quite bloody and battered, as if she had been in a tough battle.
However, Shen Ziyan waved them away and easily stood up, her wounds healing rapidly as a white light flashed over them, incubating them.
In the meantime, Shen Ziyan wondered exactly what fate held in store for her after pairing up with a monster like Li Ling, whose depth she still could not see.
